Re: [CentOS] i didn't see the 4.7 announcement

2008-09-16 Thread Robert
Joe Pruett wrote: i (and others) have missed messages on centos-devel as well. did other people not see the 4.7 announcement message? i'm wondering if the centos list server is having some kind of issue. The announcement was received here at 1200 UDT on 9/13. More noticeable, though, was t

Re: [CentOS] cron job not working

2008-09-16 Thread Robert
Al Sparks wrote: Here's a perl script that works when I run it manually. But when I run it via cron, it won't create the directory. But worse than that, an email isn't sent to the account running the job. So I'm not getting an error, but it does work when I run it manually. If I put an obvi

Re: [CentOS] Re: Install X from DVD

2008-09-19 Thread Robert
Jerry Geis wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: >>/ />>/ If you haven't done *any* upgrade on that machine yet, use the />>/ CentOS-Media repo (the .repo file is where all other .repo files are). />>/ />>/ Disable all other repos, enable that and do a "yum grouplist". You'll / ^^^

Re: [CentOS] Request info on managing MySQL

2008-09-20 Thread Robert
Joe Klemmer wrote: Good day/night/whatever fellow techies, I've come to a small problem managing mysql on CentOS 4.7 box[1]. When I have done things on mysql on my desktop systems it was always just for personal use so I would be lazy and put everything under the "test" db so I didn't

Re: [CentOS] Update troubles for wxGTK apps

2008-09-22 Thread Robert
fred smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 06:27:45PM +0200, Marcus Moeller wrote: Good Evening. I believe what Dag is saying is that, if you wish to use audacity, you cannot update wxGTK. Conversely, if you update wxGTK, you cannot use audacity. I'm sure he will eventually resolve

Re: [CentOS] Re: "Treason uncloaked!"

2008-09-25 Thread Robert
Scott Silva wrote: on 9-25-2008 2:15 AM John R Pierce spake the following: got a centos5.2 web/database server thats on a public coloc, its dmesg fills up with TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 82.135.195.32:64905/8032 shrinks window 354477433:354478918. Repaired. TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 8

Re: [CentOS] Re: Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-04 Thread Robert
Vandaman wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Now ... an upgrade from 4.5 or 4.6 to 4.7 should not have broken your machine either, so we need to figure out why it did. The server CD contains 4.4 and if you use yum you should be able to get to 4.7 without any problems. Its a different story if

Re: [CentOS] Request for additional patch in CentOS Plus kernel

2008-10-08 Thread Robert
Spike Turner wrote: Matthew Kent wrote: Any luck with this? :) Not wanting to sound like a spoil sport but if its critical to your server(s) can't you build your own kernel, pretty sure I've seen this discussed on the docs list. I suppose the CentOS plus one has to go through QA an

Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable

2008-10-16 Thread Robert
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: sbeam wrote: does anyone else have major probs with Firefox as installed on CentOS5? Hi Sorry to hear this, but I use Firefox 3.0.2 daily and I don't have any of these problems. For me works fine. Regards Marcelo Centos 5.2 (2.6.18-92.1.13.el5) firefox-3.0.2-

Re: OT: [CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-16 Thread Robert
James B. Byrne wrote: I too, see little problem with the current signal to noise ratio. Compared to some tech lists I subscribe too this one is pretty much always on the topic of some aspect of using CentOS effective and efficiently. I agree. There are times when stuff that obviously

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-26 Thread Robert
Jay Leafey wrote: I remember numbering on the back of cards with a pencil as a backup when you dropped the deck. And of course you numbered by tens just in case you had to insert something. I always took a magic-marker and made a diagonal line across the top of the deck. Made the initial

Re: [CentOS] Adding another swap

2008-11-04 Thread Robert
Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: Hi ALL, I have a harddisk with 3 primary partitions and one extended partitions. Under extented partions , there are 15 partions. Whole hard disk has been partitioned in a standard way, (i.e NOT LVM) It has 2GB ram. swap is also 2GB. Now I want to extend this swap t

Re: [CentOS] only backup selected files

2008-11-08 Thread Robert
chloe K wrote: Hi I have number of selected files to backup and it is also in different folders How can I make it easy? eg: tar zcvf select-file.tar.gz from selected file or tar zcvf select-file.tar.gz (from selected files in file.txt)? Thank you for your help I'm sure there will

Re: [CentOS] only backup selected files

2008-11-09 Thread Robert
Bent Terp wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm sure there will be other ideas but in the absence of an "include these files" file option, you could employ a simple loop to append the files in a man tar:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Live CD for System Rescue - How to get full root access to HD?

2008-11-11 Thread Robert
Lanny Marcus wrote: Booting from the CentOS 5.2 Installation DVD (or the first Installation CD), one can type "linux rescue" and then "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and have full root access to the OS on the HD. For future reference, I would like to know what I did wrong, the past couple of days, when

Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Robert
Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi all, Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issueI've a / partition which is full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this. I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log and /tmp to no avail. The system is CentOS 5.2 and is not connected to th

Re: [SOLVED] [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Robert
Ray Leventhal wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really stumped as to where the space is being eaten u

Re: [CentOS] OT: bash script for passwd and shadow manipulation

2008-11-27 Thread Robert
Erick Perez wrote: Hi, i need to extract some information from the /etc/passwd file to be used as a command input in a mail software. My /etc/passwd looks like: k.thomas:x:1918:100:Kimaura Thomas:/home/users/k.thomas:/bin/usersh My main issue here is that the fifth field contains spaces and spa

Re: [CentOS] UDEV rule allow users to unmount USB stick

2008-12-23 Thread Robert
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:46 PM, MHR wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Philip Manuel wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to understand why a normal user is not allowed to unmount >>> their USB stick? I think it is most likely a udev rule. does anyone know ? >>>

Re: [CentOS] 2 internet connections and one for backup

2008-12-26 Thread Robert
Vandaman wrote: > Bob Taylor wrote: > > >> Guys, you're on a two way street. Having said that, it >> happens you're >> both right and you're both wrong. >> >> > > I post on several mailing lists and have never seen any jackass > become abusive because he does not want to follow the guidelin

Re: [CentOS] TimeZone Mystery on a virtual dedicated server

2008-12-29 Thread Robert
Justin Piszcz wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Ami Mahloof wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> I have a weird problem woth the time zone on my virtual (goDaddy) dedicated >> server >> >> I had to setup the timezone using system-config-date to GMT+7 >> >> i am in NY (GMT-5) >> >> when i do GMT-5 i get all the t

Re: [CentOS] yum cannot find bittorent rpm at dag

2008-12-29 Thread Robert
MHR wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:36 PM, James B. Byrne > wrote: > >> These suggestions are interesting but they do not address my question, >> which is: Why does yum not find bittorrent at Dag? >> >> I was able to install bittorrent from Dag's repository using the gnome >> graphical

Re: [CentOS] mp3 to wav converter

2009-01-11 Thread Robert
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > John wrote: > >>> -Original Message- >>> From: centos-boun...@centos.org >>> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt >>> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 5:13 AM >>> To: centos@centos

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-12 Thread Robert
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: > >>After I think the last or next to last update to firefox, I >started >> seeing some problems, wherein I no longer have a >"back" function on any >> pages or tabs. >> > > I am running Firefox on CentOS 5.2

Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Robert
Anne Wilson wrote: > 2009/1/29 Les Mikesell : > >> Anne Wilson wrote: >> Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its own? If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan. If the former, maybe you need to inve

Re: [CentOS] Suggestion for Server Room monitoring

2009-02-15 Thread Robert
Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > I have a situation like this: > Our little server room is always on. It has an air conditioning unit, > but barely enough. > So sometimes during weekend, the temperature could reach unhealthy > level, like 29 degree Celsius. > Currently, there's no personnel to m

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Robert
Anne Wilson wrote: > > I'm not often beaten by things, but sometimes I have to fight them on and off > for quite a while before they are resolved. I'm grateful for all the help > I'm > getting here. I shan't be giving up for a good while yet :-) if at all. > > Anne RS232C is enough to kick a

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Robert
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 14:29 -0600, Robert wrote: > >> >> > > >> breakout box. Lacking one of those, you might find the statserial >> program to be of some use in figuring out what the control lines are doing. >>

Re: [CentOS] hplip problems - configure: error: "cannot find libjpeg support"

2009-03-06 Thread Robert
Anne Wilson wrote: > I'm trying to get hplip-2.7.12 installed, and I'm reasonably sure that I had > it installed on this box before my problems last month. Anyway, it will not > build at the moment. It stops the Configure with "configure: error: "cannot > find libjpeg support". However, > >

Re: [CentOS] OT: centos.org web site not responding

2009-03-20 Thread Robert
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 13:08 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> >> John: Then I believe the most important data we have are what you >> found a few nights ago, and the traceroute Per did from Sweden this >> morning (USA time) that died within the LayeredTech DC. Lanny

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2009-04-01 Thread Robert
Michael A. Peters wrote: > Mufit Eribol wrote: > >> Michael A. Peters wrote: >> >>> Thomas Dukes wrote: >>> The error I got when I ran 'yum update' was: Error: Missing Dependency: nss = 3.12.2.0-2-el5.centos is needed by package nss-devel

Re: [CentOS] OT: Torrent software choice

2009-04-02 Thread Robert
Spiro Harvey wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:41:33 -0400 > Robert Spangler wrote: > >> So what is everyone using for their torrent? >> What is the best? >> > > amusing. There is no such thing as the "best", only the best fit to your > nee

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

2009-04-03 Thread Robert
Niki Kovacs wrote: > I'm in France (Europe), C'mon, Niki! Give us a break. Our knowledge of world geography is not THAT bad on this side of the Atlantic. :-) On a more serious note, I was thinking while reading the list the morning what a great statement it makes for the dedication of the g

Re: [CentOS] can't "make" - SOLVED

2009-04-05 Thread Robert
Michael Klinosky wrote: > Is there a log of 'yum update' results? > /var/log/yum.log ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Robert
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >> Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: >> >> >>> /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some >>> reason >>> it is not, correct it, or look directly in /boot/g

Re: [CentOS] Raid1 on CentOS 5.x 64bit

2009-04-10 Thread Robert
Matt wrote: > Does anyone know of a howto on setting up raid1 on CentOS 5.x 64 bit? > There's at tutorial for RAID 1 on FC-8 here: http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-fedora-8 The adjustments for CentOS are minimal but since you are presumably not yet on a first-name basis wit

[CentOS] X won't start

2009-04-19 Thread Robert
This machine is running CentOS 5.3, fully updated Linux mavis.localdomain 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 09:19:18 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux. Video is an ATI Radeon 9000. X froze overnight and attempts to restart it fail. I tried an old kernel (2.6.18-92.1.22.el5) before realizing

Re: [CentOS] X won't start

2009-04-19 Thread Robert
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 12:25 -0500, Robert wrote: > >> >> > > Again, I'm not really knowledgeable about this stuff. > > HTH > First, thanks to both you and John Stanley and anyone else whose reply I lost. Finally,

Re: [CentOS] Burning data cd in CentOS?

2010-03-14 Thread Robert
Robert Heller wrote: > Neither does Adobe Reader! I've envountered PDF files that have been > simply malformed on some level. Otherwise it is a matter of how > bleeding edge the PDF file is, along with issues like non-embeded > non-standard font references (and this i

[CentOS] You'll marvel at THIS! (wasRe: RAID 5 setup?)

2010-03-26 Thread Robert
I'm not the only one to sit up and take notice here. The last reply came only 2 minutes after the 8-way mention. Benjamin Franz wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: >> No, not yet, but I always recommend setting up your data arrays >> manually so your intimately familiar with how they are constructed a

Re: [CentOS] wifi

2010-04-06 Thread Robert
On 04/06/2010 01:56 PM, Davy Leon informed us: > Hi folks > I'm trying to use a Netgear WG111-2 USB-wifi adapter on a Centos 5.3 > Box. Someone has done it? It seems not to be supported by the kernel. > Thanks You might find something useful at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=626499 _

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-16 Thread Robert
On 04/16/2010 06:17 PM, david walcroft informed us: > On 04/16/2010 03:58 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > >> On 04/16/2010 04:59 AM, david walcroft wrote: >> ... >> >>> I tried your command but this error came up >>> >>> [da...@reddwarf ~]$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z >>> /dev/dvd=rpm/CentOS-5.4

Re: [CentOS] Update successful. Thanks.

2010-05-15 Thread Robert
On 05/15/2010 02:49 PM, E Westphal informed us: > Ditto here as well. All 133 packages updated without a problem. When > re-booting, got a 'warning' that kdump had to rebuild. Once that > completed, everything seems as it was before. Yes, things do seem a > little 'snappier' - maybe it's only

Re: [CentOS] Update successful. Thanks.

2010-05-16 Thread Robert
On 05/15/2010 05:05 PM, Ned Slider informed us: > Robert wrote: > >> > > > >> Only disappointment so far is that lm_sensors still doesn't grok the AMD >> K-10 thermal sensors - a situation I grumble about even as I file it in >

Re: [CentOS] Can't umount flash drive because an application has it locked

2010-05-20 Thread Robert
On 05/20/2010 09:00 PM, MHR informed us: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Steven Vishoot wrote: > >> to me it sounds like the zip program is culprit since it might still holding >> onto the flash file system. did you try fuser -l on the flash drive and see >> what has a hold on it. just

[CentOS] CentOS 5 and seamonkey

2010-05-28 Thread Robert
Has anyone had any success in rebuilding seamonkey 2.0.4 for CentOS 5 (32-bit)? I'm currently running seamonkey-2.0-1 which I rebuilt last November. Sadly, I have no idea where the SRPM originated. I found seamonkey-2.0.4-1.fc12.src.rpm and seamonkey-2.0.4-1.fc12.src.rpm, downloaded and got to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and seamonkey

2010-05-28 Thread Robert
On 05/28/2010 01:35 PM, MHR informed us: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Robert wrote: > >> Has anyone had any success in rebuilding seamonkey 2.0.4 for CentOS 5 >> (32-bit)? I'm currently running seamonkey-2.0-1 which I rebuilt last >> November. Sadly,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and seamonkey

2010-05-29 Thread Robert
On 05/29/2010 03:35 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg informed us: > Robert wrote: > >> Has anyone had any success in rebuilding seamonkey 2.0.4 for CentOS 5 >> (32-bit)? I'm currently running seamonkey-2.0-1 which I rebuilt last >> November. Sadly, I have no i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and seamonkey

2010-05-30 Thread Robert
On 05/29/2010 04:36 PM, Robert informed us: > > On 05/29/2010 03:35 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg informed us: > >> Robert wrote: >> >> >>> Has anyone had any success in rebuilding seamonkey 2.0.4 for CentOS 5 >>> (32-bit)? I'm curr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and seamonkey

2010-05-30 Thread Robert
On 05/30/2010 05:43 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg informed us: > MHR wrote: > >> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Robert wrote: >> >>> O.K., errands finished, the rebuilt rpm installed using yum --nogpgcheck >>> localupdate /path/to/rpm with

Re: [CentOS] where to download CENTOS 5.5 DVD version?

2010-06-13 Thread Robert
Continuing this quaint convention(?) of top-posting, TO: The O.P. -- "mcclnx" My usual feeling is that there are many bittorrent clients out there (AAMOF Ktorrent is a really nice GUI that is YUMmable) and direct downloads are rude. However, some folks may have restrictions on what they can d

[CentOS] OT -- apcupsd messages

2010-08-02 Thread Robert
Does anyone here have any "feel" for the "Battery disconnected" and "Battery reattached" log entries? The rebooting came as a result of me turning off modems, router, external drives, monitor, cordless phone and finally, the computer, trying to locate a quiet but annoying "chirp". The "chirps"

Re: [CentOS] OT -- apcupsd messages

2010-08-02 Thread Robert
On 08/02/2010 09:26 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us informed us: > Robert wrote: > >> Does anyone here have any "feel" for the "Battery disconnected" and >> "Battery reattached" log entries? >> The rebooting came as a result of me turning off modem

[CentOS] how to add service at boot up

2015-03-24 Thread robert
Hi there, I am used to traditional update-rc.d et all. Now I wonder how to add a a script that used to called by init.d (wit start/sop ..) to the new "service start xx" regime. All the tutorials I found talk about how to use update-rc.d.. tha

Re: [CentOS] SNAT Logging

2013-02-27 Thread Robert
on? Maybe an "automatic > hotspot" > wich will assign an "external" IP to each "internal" one, and log it. > >What are you using folks? Look at the logging options of IPTABLES and just LOG what you want. http://www.zoominternet.net/~lazydog/iptables-t

Re: [CentOS] OT? : Big Yellow Cursor

2013-03-03 Thread Robert
-- > and I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even > through trifocals. Can anyone tell me a way to get my arrow back?? If you are using KDE 4.x then goto System Settings -> Workspace Decorations -> Cursor Themes There you can set the size of the cursor. --

Re: [CentOS] network connectivity lost after reboot/upgrade

2013-03-04 Thread Robert
ted if so ensure they match the MAC address in ifconfig output. -- Regards Robert Linux The adventure of a lifetime. Linux User #296285 Get Counted http://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] My linux keeps logging me off when I run Firefox (how to debug)?

2013-04-15 Thread Robert
he kernel you are going to have to install the driver new again. -- Regards Robert Linux The adventure of a lifetime. Linux User #296285 Get Counted http://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Checking badblocks using KS

2007-07-18 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
> > Hi All, >Is there a way to check the harddisk health before CentOS > installation.? > > One way I used to do was by using --badblocks check in ks.cfg > file while > using RH 7.2. > > This is not working (atleast not with the same syntax as > in RH 7.2) in > CentOS. > Is there

RE: [CentOS] A quick question about ./configure

2007-09-27 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
> > ./configure > -bash: ./configure: No such file or directory > One cause for this sort of misleading error can be found in the first line of the configure script. It will normally be #! where is the path to some interpreter. Often /bin/bash. If the target of that path is not fou

[CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.

2015-10-19 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
Our outsourced IT department has decided to use white listing on the firewalls for outbound ftp. I was given a list of sites our lab had accessed via ftp and eventually tracked them down to Linux machines running yum. They are all CentOS 5 or 6 with a smattering of 7. It is impractical to lis

Re: [CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.

2015-10-19 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
> > FWIW, my Centos 7 install doesn't have ftp installed and yum has no > apparent issues. > > I also, mainly, use Fedora (22 currently) and it hasn't had ftp > installed for a long time. Of course it uses dnf now, not yum. > If I understand you correctly, if I uninstall the ftp client, yum w

[CentOS] Unresolved references in libnetsnmpagent.so

2013-10-06 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
Hi, I am running an up to date centos5.9 system. The package, net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-20.el5 Contains among oteher things: /usr/lib/libnetsnmpagent.so When I link with this library (-lnetsnmpagent), I get a bunch of unresolved references.: My Google searches has not given me hints to where the

Re: [CentOS] Unresolved references in libnetsnmpagent.so

2013-10-07 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg14531.html Thank you. The command net-snmp-config --agent-libs referenced in the above message did the trick. This is definitely worth writing down as it is not "obvious to the casual observer" (to quote an old profess

Re: [CentOS] Strange Samba Issue

2014-02-17 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
Another possibility is selinux. I just build a CentOS 6 machine. When I tried mapping a drive, I kept getting permission denied. When I got into the /tmp directory, I was able to create files from Windows via Samba and see those files but ones created on the folder either did not show up or were i

[CentOS] Dug myself into a hole

2014-02-17 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
I just build a CentOS 6 machine to replace my old machine which broke to where I could not fix it. In attempting to get the applications running which had worked on the old machine, I did updates from several repos such as rpmforge, atrpms, livna, epel, etc. Some of the attempts ended going down

Re: [CentOS] Dug myself into a hole

2014-02-20 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dug myself into a hole > > > Bob S > Disable the offending repositories and then run > yum distro-sync > > Louis > One more relevant note on this thread. The "yum distro-sync' works well. I discovered the priorities plug-in in the CentOS wiki. (wiki.centos.org/PackageMa

[CentOS] Upgrading to CentOS 6

2014-02-25 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
I recently built a CentOS 6 system as my main machine at home. With a bit of help from members of this list, it is now working better than the machine it replaced (RIP). The new machine works so well, that I would like to convert some CentOS 5 machines to CentOS6. I did some research on the web an

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to CentOS 6

2014-02-26 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
> > First, CentOS does exactly what RHEL does, so this is not really a > CentOS question. > > The tradeoff is that Ubuntu doesn't go to the effort to ensure that > for 7+ years you can do updates and not have anything that was > previously working break because a change from the update. > RHEL/C

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-04-22 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
> >> And, would you care strongly if it went away (or would you just > >> migrate to something else)? > >> I would care strongly as I use it at home to limit inbound ssh to just the IP addresses of my work machine. Setting up IPtables is more complicated which can be read as "easier to get it wr

[CentOS] Why are hplip and hpijs always so back dated?

2014-04-30 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
My fully patched CentOS 6.5 system uses: hplip-common-3.12.4-4.el6_4.1.i686 hpijs-3.12.4-4.el6_4.1.i686 hplip-libs-3.12.4-4.el6_4.1.i686 My wife's printer becomes supported at 3.13.somethingOrOther and the current release is 3.14.something. Why are we so far behind? I realize that I can download

[CentOS] VNCsever not starting at boot

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
When I run system-config-services, it shows vncserver set to start at boot. in /etc/inittab I have init 3 vncserver does not start at boot. I log in on the console as root and service vncserver start and it starts with some warning messages about bad display name in "add" command, but I do n

[CentOS] Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have been dragging my feet on remote display, and have just gotten VNC going to have SOMETHING to move off the start line. But I need the 'best' for different situations, so I want to rate them. 1 to 3 where 1 is the 'best' for the catagory and 3 the loser. VNC

Re: [CentOS] Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Les Bell wrote: Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1 to 3 where 1 is the 'best' for the catagory and 3 the loser. << You fogot the ssh/vi combination, which rates 1 across the board. ssh/vi ___ Cent

Re: [CentOS] VNCsever not starting at boot

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 16:34 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: When I run system-config-services, it shows vncserver set to start at boot. in /etc/inittab I have init 3 vncserver does not start at boot. I log in on the console as root and service vncserver start and it

Re: [CentOS] VNCsever not starting at boot

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 17:11 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 16:34 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: When I run system-config-services, it shows vncserver set to start at boot. in /etc/inittab I have init 3 vncserver

Re: [CentOS] Re: VNCsever not starting at boot

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Silva wrote: on 12/6/2007 3:10 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 17:11 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 16:34 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: When I run system-config-services, it shows vncserver set

Re: [CentOS] VNCsever not starting at boot

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 18:10 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 17:11 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 16:34 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote

[CentOS] yum -- what repo sites were accessed?

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Is there a way to see what repo sites were used by yum? I want to check that my local repos are actually being used. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] VNCsever not starting at boot

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: When I run system-config-services, it shows vncserver set to start at boot. in /etc/inittab I have init 3 vncserver does not start at boot. coming in late, but for next time: system-config-services shows just one runlevel by default

Re: [CentOS] yum -- what repo sites were accessed?

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala wrote: Friday 07 December 2007 15:28:22 Robert Moskowitz napisaƂ(a): Is there a way to see what repo sites were used by yum? I want to check that my local repos are actually being used. yum search package will tell you from which repo certain packag

Re: [CentOS] Re: VNCsever not starting at boot

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Silva wrote: on 12/7/2007 5:26 AM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: When I run system-config-services, it shows vncserver set to start at boot. in /etc/inittab I have init 3 vncserver does not start at boot. coming in late

[CentOS] After 5.1 update $releasever is still 5

2007-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have performed the 5.1 update via the 5 repo on a couple of systems. I then went to switch these systems to my new local repo using ther $releasever variable. It still has the value of 5, not 5.1 Where is this set? Why was it not changed to 5.1? On the one clean install from the 5.1 isos,

[CentOS] Problem with local base repo

2007-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Last night my rsync got some 'new' files for the base repo and new repodata. This morning, I set a server to upgrade from 5 to 5.1 by setting it to access my local base and updates repos. I got the following error: Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages.

Re: [CentOS] After 5.1 update $releasever is still 5

2007-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Karanbir Singh wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Where is this set? Why was it not changed to 5.1? The question has been answered a few times already, i suggest you do some research on your own part before just blindly writing to the list. Myst have mystyped $releasever when I did a serch in my

Re: [CentOS] Problem with local base repo

2007-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:57:33 -0500: error was [Errno 4] IOError: did you check it's there? My .repo file has: [base] baseurl=http://repo.foo.com/centos/5.1/os/$basearch/ At this point, CentOS/openssh-clients-4.3p2-24.el5.i386.rpm

Fixed - Re: [CentOS] Problem with local base repo

2007-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
mv the i386/repodata dir ran the rsync to get an all new /repodata/ yum update is now pulling down headers. Robert Moskowitz wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:57:33 -0500: error was [Errno 4] IOError: did you check it's there? My .repo

[CentOS] file or website upload scripts / programs and security protection

2007-12-14 Thread Robert - elists
Holiday Greetings! Um scenario is centos 4.5 standard apache webserver I have a client that is really struggling with website file upload concepts. Ive been googling for some scripts or other programs that allow uploading of files to proper directory(ies) after authentication I am definitel

[CentOS] take plunge and yum update to 4.6

2007-12-17 Thread Robert - elists
Usually I am one of the first ones to do it I have resisted this time... It is almost the Holidays and out centos 4 boxes have been online for like 2 years or whatever Has anyone boldly taken the plunge on any high use and/or Internet facing Centos$ servers and done a yum update or a yum -y u

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread Robert Arkiletian
> contributors. > Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of bandwidth. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/roba

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On 12/17/07, Von <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > > > > Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your > > 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of > > ban

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On 12/18/07, Von <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brilliant. Thanks for the tip! Thank Andrew Tridgell. He's the brilliant one that wrote rsync and Samba. :) -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_Tea

[CentOS] Update repo rsync but no new repodata?

2007-12-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just did a manual resync of my local update repo from mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.1/updates/i386/ I got a new version of Thunderbird, but not a new set of files in the repodata directory. Thus when I did a yum update against my local repo, I did not get the new version of Thunderbird. I

[CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
When I try to burn anything to cd, I get a message to insert a CD large enough for my file (normally an ISO image). Doesn't matter if the iso image is a 600Mb Centos ISO or a 48Mb DSL ISO. Same warning. My CD-Rs are Memorex 700MB/80min 52x disks that work just fine on XP systems. So what a

Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:30:51 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So what am I missing configuration-wise? Does k3b work? (You can use k3b on a Gnome system -- I do it all the time.) No it does not. It prompts me for media, even if I preload th

Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Get some canned air and blow the dirt off of the sensor in the drive. No change. The drive is the coffee mug tray style. so even opening the p

Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Get some canned air and blow the dirt off of the sensor in the drive. No change

Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Get some cann

Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 21:59 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Dec 25 20:46:02 onlo kernel: usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Dec 25 20:46:02 onlo kernel: usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Dec 25 20:46:03

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